- About us
- Why Sydney
- Bid for an event
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Meet our team
Business Events Sydney (BESydney) is growing and we remain a tight-knit team of enthusiastic business tourism professionals. Read below for an idea of who does what, and read through our profiles to get to know us better.
Executive team
Responsible for the overall strategy, administration and events of BESydney:
- Jon Hutchison, AM: Chief Executive Officer
- Lyn Lewis-Smith: Chief Operating Officer
- Julie Adams: Executive Assistant/Events Manager
- Ashleigh Rymer: Administration and Events Assistant
Finance team
Responsible for finance, human resources, database management and IT at BESydney:
- Sonya Stewart: Chief Financial Officer
- Pravin Pathik: Accountant
- Rebecca Smith: Accounts Assistant
- Gilly Cashell: Database Administrator
- Kate Daines: Convention Research Executive
Marketing and Stakeholder Relationships team
Responsible for branding, communications, website management and media and working with and promoting BESydney stakeholders:
- Kerryn Ross: General Manager Marketing and Stakeholder Relationships
Marketing Services Team
- Mali Webb: Online Marketing Executive
- Emma Capel: Marketing Executive
- Miriam Sheh: Designer
Stakeholder Relationships
- Maeve Chomphunut: Head of Stakeholder Relationships
- Ian-Michael Farkas: Business Development Manager
- Rosanna Simone: Stakeholder Relationships Executive
Sales team
The Sales team includes both the Business Development and Bid Management teams, responsible for identifying potential events and bringing them to Sydney and New South Wales:
- Christine Judd: General Manager Sales
Business Development team
- Chris Barnard: Business Development Manager
- Virginie Laplanche: Business Development Manager
- Elizabeth Li: Business Development Manager, Asia
- Siddharth Ketkar: Business Development Manager, Asia & Pacific
Sales Research team
- Monica Varga: Head of Sales Research
- Bethany Teulan: Research Executive
- Nathalie Altamiranda: Research Executive
- Katie Boone: Research Executive
Bid team
- Virginia Loyola: Head of Bidding
- Darwin Ow: Bid Manager
- Marie-Claire Henry: Senior Bid Executive
- Suzanna Kenneally: Bid Manager
- Ben Williams: Bid Executive
AccessNSW team
Responsible for helping businesses and orgnisations to plan their events:
- Giselle Radulovic: Head of AccessNSW
- Lillian Dew: AccessNSW Manager
- Janine Turnbull: AccessNSW Executive
Consultants
- Ian Stuart: Business Events Consultant
International team-members
The international team supports BESydney from key international hubs:
- Sinead Yeo: Business Development Director, Asia
- Bondie Fung: Business Development Executive, Asia
- Sue Wilkes: Business Development Director, Europe
- Barbara Howlett: Business Development Manager, United Kingdom and Europe
- Michel Couturier: Business Development Manager, North America
